Mainly original manuscripts, 1784, 1806-1815, with a few papers of later dates. Composing the major segment is correspondence, 1806-1807, on Shawnee Indian affairs kept by Edward Tiffin and Thomas Kirker, successive governors of Ohio. Included are letters signed by Tiffin and Kirker and by Henry Brunt, William Creighton, Thomas McPherson, Thomas Moore, Robert Renick, John Riddle, Stephen Ruddell, William Ward, William Wells, Benjamin Whiteman, William Williamson, T[homas?] Worthington. With these are contemporary copies of several documents to which Kenton was a party.

A few papers of John Edgar of Kaskaskia, Illinois, include his fur trade partnership agreement in 1784 and assorted legal records, 1814-1815, supplemented by Draper correspondence and notes about Edgar and his wife Rachel. Also in this volume is a biographical account about Kenton and the Owen family begun by Asal Owen.